Router & WinME

[brueger]

First of all here is my set up: Cox broadband Internet connection <--> Toshiba cable modem <--> SMC Barricade 7004ABR router. Four computers off the router, two running WIN98 and two running WinME.

Everything was fine until Cox in my area changed their servers. The two computers running Win98 came right up. I had to change one setting in Control Panel | Network | Properties - I believe it was "Disable WINS..."
I configured the router, as instructed to handle DCHP. The two computers running WinME would not connect. I can do release/renew with winipcfg, but I cannot ping 192.168.2.1

Since I had installed WinME over Win98 on my laptop, I decided to uninstall WinME. The Internet came right up after the laptop rebooted under Win98!!

On the other computer running WinME - I have checked all the settings in Control Panel | Network | Properties. I have gone into System | Hardware and removed my NIC card. I still cannot ping the router. I cannot
uninstall" ME on this computer because it came installed. I guess The I could wipe ME and install Win98, but I would rather not resort to that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Brian

[mjc]

I have played around a little with the networking components for 98 and ME (vxds, dlls, etc) and know that they are about 70% the same (checked out a couple and saw no changes except for the date)....it is is that 30% that is different is probably where your problem lies, so now to figure out what exactly IS different.....

Have you tried to remove the connection (ME machine) completely and start over...with the wizard? without it?

The screens are a little different, but have you tried to manully match the settings from one of the working 98 machines on the ME machine?

Are same protocols enabled/disabled on both machines?

Does the router explicitly state it supports ME?

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[brueger]

Originally posted by mjc:
I have played around a little with the networking components for 98 and ME (vxds, dlls, etc) and know that they are about 70% the same (checked out a couple and saw no changes except for the date)....it is is that 30% that is different is probably where your problem lies, so now to figure out what exactly IS different.....

Have you tried to remove the connection (ME machine) completely and start over...with the wizard? without it?

The screens are a little different, but have you tried to manully match the settings from one of the working 98 machines on the ME machine?

Are same protocols enabled/disabled on both machines?

Does the router explicitly state it supports ME?



Have not tried to start over with wizard. I'll have a look.

I did check on both machines and I cannot find anything different. As far as I know, both have all the same protocols the same.

The same router worked fine before the server switch over. So that tells me that it supports ME.

Thanks for you assistance. I'll check on the things you sugest.

Later

Brian